Slow Boil Over Egg Roll Tickets on Web

[thundley4]

The White House's Internet distribution of tickets to this year's Easter Egg Roll appears to have begun with a splat.

Yesterday's release of tickets online in batches produced what some would-be roll-goers described as large gaps in availability, and frustration and confusion.

In recent years, most people wanting to get the free tickets for the hallowed Washington rite of spring would have to stand in line, often for hours, at the Ellipse Visitor Pavilion, at 15th and E streets, the Saturday before the roll. Tickets were distributed first-come, first-served. Before that, huge lines would form Easter Sunday and into the next morning as people waited for tickets on the day of the event.

The switch to online distribution was envisioned as a way to ease the process and make tickets to the April 13 event on the White House's South Lawn available to a broader cross section of people across the nation. By 6 p.m. yesterday, tickets had been snatched up by people in 41 states, a spokeswoman said. By 7:45, the Web site said all tickets were gone.

Complaints began surfacing early yesterday, shortly after the tickets became available.

WaPo

He's the magic man, everything he touches gets FUBARRED.

[DixieBelle]

I remember saying a while back that I didn't trust him to run a Sunday picnic....I hate being right.

[Tess Anderson]

You got that right - Barack Hussein Obama has repeatedly demonstrated an uncanny ability to screw up just about anything.

You'd think it'd disenfranchise part of his base, pimping these tickets requires internet access now. Obamanation.

[Chris]

Newer isn't always better; Obama himself is a prime example.  And to think, the only thing we had to worry about last year were men in dresses showing up claiming to be their child's mother.